Clark Haaland
@clark_h
Clark Haaland
feelings are meant to be felt - that’s what they are for. We heal by acknowledging our emotions and test our heart’s resilience by lingering within the unbearable. It is something music can help us do. We find our hearts are much stronger than we presumed, and what we thought was unbearable was nothing of the sort. Music draws forth these... See more
The Red Hand Files Issue #306
Thought provoking and Purpose & Creativity
Nick Cave
20 END OF YEAR REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Exit 2024 With Closure and Control
Heather Maietta
How did I live up to my definition of success?
What was my greatest accomplishment this year?
What was one skill I improved upon in 2024?
What about my daily routine worked for me?
What was one thing I spent money on that was invaluable to my career?
What was the biggest
(“What an astonishing thing a book is,” said Carl Sagan. “It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside... See more
The power of enjoyment
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mail.google.comThrive on the Raging Sea
"Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you." - Marcus Aurelius
If you feel overwhelmed, trust me, you're not alone.
But remember this:
The explorer doesn't set out on the voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm to stay perfectly on course.
Rather, the explorer trusts in the preparation and the... See more
"Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you." - Marcus Aurelius
If you feel overwhelmed, trust me, you're not alone.
But remember this:
The explorer doesn't set out on the voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm to stay perfectly on course.
Rather, the explorer trusts in the preparation and the... See more
Lighthouse Skills: How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
In his 2012 essay, “More people should write,” writer and programmer James Somers described this process as creating a mental bucket for an idea, thereby unleashing a magnetic force between that idea and the world:
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular, I’ll remember everything better; everything will mean more to me. That’s because everything I perceive will unconsciously engage on its way in with the substance of my preoccupation. A preoccupation, in that sense, is a hell of a useful thing for a mind.
Once you’ve discovered the right mental buckets, or containers, for your creative work, it’s time to maximize the potential for unexpected connections. But to surface those connections, you also need the right tools.
Happiness Is Not Pleasure. I Kill Pleasure.
In a conversation with the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, the philosopher Simon Critchley began to define happiness as synonymous with pleasure. “I have to say,” Hoffman intervened, “you’re starting to define happiness in a way that pertains to pleasure. But I would definitely say that pleasure is not... See more
In a conversation with the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, the philosopher Simon Critchley began to define happiness as synonymous with pleasure. “I have to say,” Hoffman intervened, “you’re starting to define happiness in a way that pertains to pleasure. But I would definitely say that pleasure is not... See more
SIX at 6: The Inverted-U, Killing Pleasure, The Goldilocks Zone, Too Much Cake, Immigrants To Wealth, and Enough
Billy Oppenheimer
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.”
-Brother Lawrence, Carmelite monk of the 1600s France
-Brother Lawrence, Carmelite monk of the 1600s France